What is the Pacific Ring of Fire and its relationship to the earthquakes that struck Latin American countries | Sciences

This is the region of the largest seismic activity in the world. On average, seismographs pick up some kind of tremor in the ring of fire every five minutes.

According to the US Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics.

When plates move, they generate geological activity at their edges. They can move apart, but they can also touch each other (which leads to less intense orgasms) or come together.

Much of the volcanic activity occurs along subduction zones, when one tectonic plate slides under the other (and clumps together). The enormous pressure that the downward-moving plate is exerting on the magma in the Earth’s interior causes it to seek a path to the surface at the edge of the plate. This is how volcanoes are born.

The strongest tremors were observed in the coastal regions of Peru (magnitude 7.0) and Ecuador (magnitude 6.8).

The Peruvian National Seismological Center recorded a 7.0-magnitude earthquake at 12:12 p.m. (local time; 2:12 p.m. Brasilia time), with its epicenter in Tumbes, in the north of the country. In Ecuador, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s coast at 12:12 p.m. (local time; 2:12 p.m. Brasilia time). The epicenter was about 30 kilometers from Palau municipality, Guayas province.

The strongest earthquake in Argentina occurred in Mendoza (magnitude 5.0). In Chile, it was in Arica (magnitude 4.0), in the far north of the country. In Mexico, the record was about 150 kilometers from San Jose del Cabo (magnitude 4.3).